This week in class was obviously different from our previous ones, our interactions were virtual and we only read one writing, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”. “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson is unlike our other readings in class. In this class I notice […]
This week we read “The Lady of Shallot” by Lord Alfred Tennyson and during class found it similar to other stories, such as “Rapunzel” and “Shrek”. I found the connection between “The Lady of Shallot” and the Grimm Brothers’ “Rapunzel” to be interesting, In this blog post I want to go in depth to that […]
In class this week we read some ballads by Charlotte Smith. Ballads are fourteen line poems that have a rhyme scheme, such as ABAB. We read the ballad “Written in the Church-Yard at Middleton in Sussex” as a class and then my group read “To Fancy”. In this blog post I am going to give […]
In class this week we have talked and read about many things, such as going over British history, discussing the slave trade and slavery that took place in Britain and America, and reading “The Daemon-lover”. In all these topics I noticed one common similarity and theme- a lack of morality. Beginning with British history, immorality […]
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